Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DA13923
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Darge Photographic Company
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows
Date made c 5 February 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 4870 Private (Pte) Thomas Patrick Monks, 15th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion, of Ballan, Vic. Pte Monks enlisted on 29 November 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Wiltshire in Melbourne on 7 March 1916. He was killed in action on the Somme, France, on 23 November 1916, while serving with the 58th Battalion. See also DA13924.